State, US, & World History

Kansas

Class materials, visit information, and professional learning

Digitized photos and other primary source documents in a searchable database. Lesson plans aligned to Kansas state standards are also included

Voices of the past through nearly-lost books, letters, diaries, and photographs

Devoted to digitally preserving Kansas' past, giving future generations the opportunity to learn from family and local history

Created by the KSHS to share its historical collections

Extensive list in a variety of contents

US

Leading nonprofit organization dedicated to K–12 history ed

101 awesome lessons

Links to sites, lesson plans, classroom activities, and materials

2.5 million resources and the ability to collect and curate

Links to all of the Smithsonian museums and their ed resources

Lessons, interactives, artifacts

34,865,569 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Analyze Atlantic slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963

Selection of multiple sites and resources

World

47 awesome lessons

Professional development and classroom materials to support the study of world history

Vast amount of compellingly curated and contextualized art, history, and VR resources

Award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games

Portal to world history websites

Tons of resources organized by period

Locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources

All with great search tools and the ability to download sources